book word
noun
: a word learned solely or principally from reading and often understood without knowledge of its customary pronunciation
eleemosynary is a book word
fine book words and long sentences
Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley
Word History
First Known Use
circa 1670, in the meaning defined above
- lady of the evening
- lady of the house
- Lady of the Lake
- lady palm
- lady paramount
- lady pea
- lady slipper
- lady tulip
- Lady Washington geranium
- lady wrack
- lady's bedstraw
- lady's bower
- lady's chair
- lady's cloth
- lady's gown
- lady's hole
- lady's ladder
- lady's maid
- lady's man
- lady's mantle
- lady's slipper
- lady's thumb
- lady's traces
- lady's tresses
- lady's woman